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Often for the purpose of exposition- as a help towards stating
the nature of the produced multiplicity- we use the example of
many lines radiating from one centre; but, while we provide for
individualization, we must carefully preserve mutual presence.
Even in the case of our circle we need not think of separated
radii; all may be taken as forming one surface: where there is no
distinction even upon the one surface but all is power and
reality undifferentiated, all the beings may be thought of as
centres uniting at one central centre: we ignore the radial lines
and think of their terminals at that centre, where they are at
one. Restore the radii; once more we have lines, each touching a
generating centre of its own, but that centre remains coincident
with the one first centre; the centres all unite in that first
centre and yet remain what they were, so that they are as many as
are the lines to which they serve as terminals; the centres
themselves appear as numerous as the lines starting from gem and
yet all those centres constitute a unity.
Thus we may liken the Intellectual Beings in their diversity to
many centres coinciding with the one centre and themselves at one
in it but appearing multiple on account of the radial lines-
lines which do not generate the centres but merely lead to them.
The radii, thus, afford a serviceable illustration for the mode
of contact by which the Intellectual Unity manifests itself as
multiple and multipresent.
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